World English Bible

Matthew 24:21

“for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.”

Verse in context — Matthew 24

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There,' don't believe it.

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.